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Scalable privacy risk assessment of medical data processed by large language models

Aug 2026 · Journal of Supercomputing · Vol 82 · 0 citations · 36 references

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This paper empirically evaluates ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0 using over 23,000 real user-generated medical queries, assessing their susceptibility to privacy breaches through quasi-identifiers such as age, location, phone number and national registration number and proposes a scalable privacy evaluation model that combines k-anonymity, l-diversity, t-closeness, entropy, re-identification risk and delta-disclosure.

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